Genotyping to distinguish microbial pathogenicity in periodontitis

Periodontology 2000

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 136-159

  Kuboniwa, Masae ^a   Inaba, Hiroaki ^a   Amano, Atsuo ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; ARGINGIPAIN, PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; LYS GINGIPAIN; LYS-GINGIPAIN; RNA 16S; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOFILM; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CHRONIC PERIODONTITIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORESIS; FIMBRIA; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HETERODUPLEX ANALYSIS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PATHOLOGY; PERIODONTITIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BIOFILMS; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHRONIC PERIODONTITIS; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; ELECTROPHORESIS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HETERODUPLEX ANALYSIS; HUMANS; METAGENOME; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PERIODONTITIS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 77955746033     PISSN: 09066713     EISSN: 16000757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0757.2010.00352.x     Document Type: Article

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